ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,059, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nozomi Networks Sagl (Mendrisio, Switzerland).

"Method for automatic storing of malicious samples" was invented by Alexey Kleymenov (Massagno, Switzerland), Alessandro Di Pinto (Malnate, Italy), Moreno Carullo (Gavirate, Italy) and Andrea Carcano (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for automatically storing malicious samples, comprising collecting input samples from sample providers relating to malwares and goodwares, parsing each of the input samples to extract metadata relating to each of said input sample, adding the metadata relating to ea...